Installing & Using Arroyo on Mac OS X

Disclaimer

The information in this document was current as of October 2004-ish.
Changes in more recent versions of Arroyo may have made it obsolete!
I believe at the very least you can use command-line options to
configure to set the library variables, rather than patching the
makefiles, which is what I describe below.

Compilation & Installation on 10.4 Tiger

Work in progress - see below for 10.3 notes

doxygen: There's a binary Mac OS X version of Doxygen available here.
Use this rather than Fink because fink is now stupid on 10.4 and wants
to compile and install all of tcl-tk as a dependency for doxygen,
which is unnecessary because Apple ships their own tcl/tk with 10.4.
The binary installer is for a Mac-OS-X-ized version of doxygen; to get
the command line version in your path do this:

Compilation & Installation

This is what I needed to do in order to get Arroyo installed on my
Powerbook laptop running OS X 10.3.

** Required Libraries **

BLAS and LAPACK come standard on all Mac OS X computers as part of the
vecLib library. These take advantage of the AltiVec instructions in the
PowerPC, which are 128-bit vector instructions similar to MMX/SSE on Intel.
I'm not sure how whether Arroyo will benefit from these; there's also a
-faltivec option to GCC that I haven't experimented with yet.

CFITSIO is easily installed from the source.

./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make ; sudo make install

DON'T install the precompiled fftw3 from fink; it ends up having linking errors
for some unknown reason. Installing directly from the source works fine..